Hebron is an ancient and holy Jewish city, home to the burial site of the Jewish matriarchs and patriarchs. In 1929, the Jewish Sephardic/Mizrachi community had been living in Hebron continuously for over 800 years under various imperial powers, and the Jewish Ashkenazi community had roots there that went back at least a century.

In 1929 Arabs committed a massacre against the Jews living in Hebron, slaughtering 67 Jews and ransacking Jewish homes and synagogues. 19 heroic local Arab families saved 435 Jews by hiding them in their houses at great risk to themselves. All Jewish survivors were forcefully evacuated from their homes by British authorities.

This took place 19 years before Israel declared itself an independent State in 1948, and 38 years before the 1967 war, when Israel gained control of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

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People always love to talk about effect and never cause. Once the victim, always the victim. Do Arabs harp on Israel's caste lead? Do Arabs harp on the 1994 slaying of Arabs by Zionist zealots? Do Americans cry over the USS liberty being Attacked by Israel or the Lavin Affair or King David Hotel boning by Israel?!! Why don't we ask a rabbi who experienced Palestine 1929?

When I was in Hebron in 1929, there occurred the tragic massacre of over twenty yeshiva students, great scholars, plus another forty members of the Jewish community. I would like to describe the error that has circulated in Jewish communities – a horrible error, that accuses the Arabs in Hebron of being murderers who attacked the Jews simply because the Arabs were “bad people.” In order to correct the record, this error must be corrected. The Arabs were very friendly people, and the Jewish People in Hebron lived together with them and had very friendly relations with them. They worked for Jews, and everybody got along just fine.

To take just one example, I used to have the habit of walking a mile or two out of town all by myself to visit a tree that was believed to be the tree where ...

People always love to talk about effect and never cause. Once the victim, always the victim. Do Arabs harp on Israel's caste lead? Do Arabs harp on the 1994 slaying of Arabs by Zionist zealots? Do Americans cry over the USS liberty being Attacked by Israel or the Lavin Affair or King David Hotel boning by Israel?!! Why don't we ask a rabbi who experienced Palestine 1929?

When I was in Hebron in 1929, there occurred the tragic massacre of over twenty yeshiva students, great scholars, plus another forty members of the Jewish community. I would like to describe the error that has circulated in Jewish communities – a horrible error, that accuses the Arabs in Hebron of being murderers who attacked the Jews simply because the Arabs were “bad people.” In order to correct the record, this error must be corrected. The Arabs were very friendly people, and the Jewish People in Hebron lived together with them and had very friendly relations with them. They worked for Jews, and everybody got along just fine.

To take just one example, I used to have the habit of walking a mile or two out of town all by myself to visit a tree that was believed to be the tree where our patriarch Abraham met the three angels, as described in Genesis. I especially enjoyed visiting the tree in the summertime. Along the way I would talk to the Arabs, though it was mostly using our hands because I didn’t speak any Arabic. Interestingly enough, no one in the yeshiva ever told me it was dangerous to go by myself among the Arabs. We just lived with them, and got along very well.

I have also seen a letter from the Grand Rabbi of the Gerrer Hassidim of those days, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter of Poland, regarding his trip to the Holy Land during the days when people were talking about emigrating to Palestine. He wanted to find out what kind of people the Arabs of Palestine were, in order to be able to advise people whether to move there or not. He wrote in his letter that the Arabs were a very friendly and fine people.
Therefore it’s necessary to set the record straight about the accusations that the Arabs were terrible killers who liked attacking Jews. This was never the situation at all!

Today’s wicked Zionists are just like their predecessors, who were responsible for causing terrible suffering in Palestine with their wars with the Arabs, may G-d have mercy. At that time in 1929, the Zionists had a slogan arguing that the Western Wall in Jerusalem was a Jewish “national symbol.” Of course, the Arabs disagreed with this idea, considering that they had control of the location for over 1,100 years. However, the Zionist mobs were yelling that “The Wall is ours!” It’s hard to understand why they felt that way considering they have no connection to the Jewish holy places whatsoever. An argument erupted in the Jewish newspapers about establishing a permanent prayer area for Jews at the Wall. This provoked the Arabs, and the rabbi of Jerusalem at the time, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld begged them to stop and to be appreciative to the Arabs for allowing Jews to pray at the Wall for so many centuries undisturbed. However, the Zionists wanted a permanent setup under their control.

The Zionists refused to heed the calls of Rabbi Zonnenfeld, and they called a large meeting of Jews in Jerusalem – supposedly some 10,000 people showed up. One of the speakers was their “chief Rabbi” (Avraham Isaac Kook), who proclaimed, “Hear O Israel, the Wall is our Wall, the Wall is One” (which is a ridiculous pun on the blessing, “Hear O Israel, the Lord your G-d, the Lord is One”). This began the conflict at the time between the Zionists and the Arabs.
Afterwards, we were studying at the yeshiva in Hebron, and saw a bunch of boys in short pants carrying weapons on bicycles and motorcycles, running around the streets of Hebron. We were very worried about this. What were they up to?

In brief, our rabbi, the supervisor of our religious academy, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, called them for a meeting, but they refused. He was forced to go over to them, and asked them what they were up to. He accused them of wanting to provoke the Arabs. They responded that they were coming to protect us!! We cried out, “Woe is us! G-d have mercy!” They didn’t want to leave town until it was too late!

These arrogant cowards only ran away when the local leaders of the Arabs called for a mass meeting of the people of the surrounding Arab villages. But it was too late; the Arabs got organized, and the Mufti called on his people to be ready Friday night when the yeshiva would be attending prayers. Of course, the yeshiva itself was anti-Zionist, but the Arabs didn’t know to distinguish between us and the Zionists. Sadly they attacked and killed some of our people, including the great scholar, Rabbi Shmuel Rosenhaltz.

The next morning we heard about the excitement in town, and even worse, we heard the crying and shouting. I and a friend, Avraham Ushpener, lived in an apartment that was part of a three-story building leased by a Jew from an Arab. We could hear all the noise from our apartment on the third floor. We were terrified to let the Arabs in because we knew how angry they had become, but a while later things calmed down. In total, some 65 people were killed. On the other side of town, however, the Jews were spared.

Why am I telling this story? It is because I wanted to describe how the wicked Zionists, both today and in those days, were the cause of our suffering! They cooperated with the Nazis, and our religion teaches that a person who causes someone to sin is worse than someone who kills him.

It reminds me of an event recounted by Rabbi Moshe Schonfeld, who once visited Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz {Chazon Ish) when the Zionist state was established, and when there was fighting between the Zionists and the Arabs. Rabbi Schonfeld told Rabbi Karelitz about what was happening. Rabbi Karelitz told him that the crimes of the Zionists were much worse, because they were wicked heretics who were uprooting hundreds of thousands of Jews from their faith and that is much greater pain since our Sages stated that a person who causes another person to sin is much worse than if he kills him.
In our own days there is a Zionist leader (Begin), whose arrogance and selfishness is more important than anything else to him, and for which he is prepared to sacrifice hundreds and thousands of Jews. These heretics and evildoers, this Zionist leader of a state that killed the Judaism of the Yemenite and Moroccan Jews, and of many other Sephardic Jews! This is the work of these thugs and gangsters. And there are religious Jewish parties who dare to state that they love this man?! Everyone must know that the anger of the Arabs against us is only caused by the Zionists!

Written by Rabbi Boruch Kaplan, Principal of Bais Yaakov
The Arabs were a friendly people to us, and I am a witness to it. We lived very well with them in Hebron. Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, the Gerrer Rebbe, attested to this as well, and it is the accursed Zionists who caused them to hate us. The Zionists dare to use their power to expel the Arabs, and even today in Lebanon, they kill and butcher the Arabs; they wipe out whole villages with the airplanes they get from the United States.
Everyone should know who the murderers are – the Zionists are the biggest murderers in the world, who refuse to let the Jewish People live in peace either physically or spiritually!”

sodahead had a surwey of if you lost a family member and you could get up to 273 points, I recieved 25, So what is it based on? I really do not care about their points, if it wasn't for the enviormental one world nazi's it wouldn't cost so much to be buried!

Abraham's sons have been at each others throats since the beginning.....Satan likes this and has enlisted other nations and leaders over the centuries in an attempt to annihilate God's "Chosen" people; the "apple of His eye". Why?
Because Israel brought forth the Messiah, the Hope and Deliverer of mankind, so Satan has been trying to wipe out the source (Israel) ever since.

No I didn't know of this particular tragedy but all it says to me is that these two ethnic groups have been killing each other even longer than I knew and will, more than likely never stop. Both sides insist that they are God's chosen people. They are know different than the Catholics and their "conversion" of the "heathens" of the new world when the Americas were first discovered. If any one could PLEASE explain to me how "saving" them really meant killing three fourths of them. All in God's name. I love God but all these killers and murderers "in God's name"...well if any of them had even a clue who God is, well one would like to believe that they would just maybe have a little more regard for other people's lives than they do. If they really loved God they would have more interest in LOVE and LIFE instead of HATE and DEATH!!

Not even remotely true. Everytime Christians ruled Hebron Jews werent even allowed within the city, the synagogue was made a church, even the bishopric of St Abraham during the crsades, run by a bishop. When the Sassanids and other Muslim forces invaded they restored Jewish synagoges and brouht them back, infact Jews were commonly IN Muslim armies. The Ottomans protected them, officially, and when they were expelled from Endlgand, Spain and France repeatedly (the Hitler trick of using them as a scapegoat and stealing their wealth to backup revenues as nearly 1000 years old, also did it to the Templars) they returned to a land their ancestors were banished from by the Romans. The massacre occurred because of fear mongering and rumours that Arabs were being murdered inJerusalem. You missed the WHOLE part where 60 some where murdered and 400some saved, all by Arabs. And that fear mongering was not wholly without reason, Jews in the region began taking an increasingly militant stance towards retaking their land, with no regard for who occupied it at the time. Read up on David Ben Gurion. Also dont ignore the Protestants in America, Catholics had a little help from England, the 13 colonies were protestant.

Yes, but that does not give them the right to kill Palestinians and how come they don’t have a land? Where do they come from? And are they the real Jews because, I understand the real Jews are Black so these devils have to change, or else get out of this planet since they don’t know how to live in pace so please find out where did you came from soon..

Jews were originally Middle Eastern, not black per se. In the 1st and 2nd centuries Rome banished them from Judea creating the diaspora, which led to them being of every culture, sources even state there were Jews in Nanching China since the 10th century.

92-Year-Old Arab Gloats Over 1929 Rape-Massacre, Wants Encore
Eyewitness gloats over Hevron Arabs’ rape, torture and massacre of Jews from Hevron, asks for more of the same.

In the video, a 92-year-old Arab woman, originally from Hevron, glowingly recalls on Hamas-Gaza TV how the Arabs of Hevron, including her father, without provocation, massacred the peaceful Jewish neighbors they had lived beside for years in 1929 – almost 20 years before the 1948 War of Independence. Needless to say, there was no State of Israel then, no IDF, no "occupation" etc...

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The unfortunate thing is that it makes it too time consuming to try to sort out legitimate questions. I apologize to those asking serious, important questions, but I've decided to answer all questions with information I want to put out. Hopefully, this will reach some intelligent people who can do something with the information.

For those who have no idea who I am, I offer a special apology, but the fault is with Sodahead for allowing people, many I believe are horse's asses, to “share” and thereby post on people not on the original poster's “friends” list.

Here's a starter list of info sites:

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I give up! My question box keeps getting filled with mostly mindless questions from people who are interested only in getting “points” to become a Generally Uninformed Rediculously Unintelligent Sodahead (GURU). I removed a couple of “friends” when it became obvious that was what they were doing. But that didn't work because some smartasses started sending me their questions as “Shared by” questions.

The unfortunate thing is that it makes it too time consuming to try to sort out legitimate questions. I apologize to those asking serious, important questions, but I've decided to answer all questions with information I want to put out. Hopefully, this will reach some intelligent people who can do something with the information.

For those who have no idea who I am, I offer a special apology, but the fault is with Sodahead for allowing people, many I believe are horse's asses, to “share” and thereby post on people not on the original poster's “friends” list.

Because of the Google problem, I've been reposting the info in WordPress. I've broken some of them down, but the order they appear in leaves something to be desired. I'm trying to correct that.
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This is another great site for books and documents that Charlotte Iserbyte's son wanted to preserve before they went down the Memory Hole:
http://www.americandeception....

Finally, Ed Balajeski spent almost his whole adult life taking Conspiracy from Theory to Fact. He concentrated his output in the Pennsylvania Crier which dealt with regionalism as the means of destroying America from within to soften her for World Government. He does deal extensively with that World Government as well.
http://www.pennsylvaniacrier....

I again apologize to those who were asking questions out of sincerity and not just to spam for points. I regret I had to turn to spam in self-defense.

No, I never heard of this. It's sad. This is one example among thousands of examples throughout history of people being horrible to one another. Good for those Arab families who helped some of the Jews survive.

I find it very important to note the part about "19 heroic local Arab families saved 435 Jews". There is a lot of arab bashing these days. And I just think it's important to remember, there are no horrible ethnicities, just some horrible acting people.

That's because somehow the fact that not ALL the Jews left in the diaspora has never been taught in US schools. What most people don't realize, is that the area once again known as Israel has always been predominantly Jewish. People in this country buy the Islamist propaganda.

Because its not true, Islam didnt kick them out we Christians (Im Catholic) did. The Byzantine Empire had laws agaisnt Jews living in the region. Te Crusaders killed every Jews and Muslem and Christian they found in the cities, as a Papal legate once said during the Albigensian Crusade in southern France when asked how to tell heretics from Catholics in a besieged city of 20000 (normal population 15000 the difference were refugees) "Kill them all, God will recognize his own". I hate typing on an iPad actual sentences. Also e first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion made statements contradicting that, he knew he was conquering land that didnt belong to him, he said property was something that existed in peace, not war and he was in a war.

It doesn't matter. Our nation is going broke and we can't keep giving money to the Jews ans Arabs. It has been too many years and there is no end in sight. America needs new water and sewer pipes and alternative technologies to take chemicals out of our water and to disinfect it with NO chemicals, like Europe does. This is more important than hashing over old wars and the current one that has never ended. The Arabs should be mad at Arafat. American tax dollars by the millions went to him too. Arafat didn't spend it on his people. His wife is rich and lives in France. They should get the Amercian money Mrs. Arafat is living on (which was given to her husband) and build homes for every one of her husband's people. I don't care to here about this any more.

I did not know about this. But this should not be about adopting an "eye for an eye" principle. Mistakes have been made by everyone in the past. EVERYONE, BY ALL SIDES, EVERYWHERE. Past grievances should not be used to fuel fires now.

The Jews were quite good at massacre themselves. Read the Old Testament, Chapter 31, They killed the fathers, mothers, older sisters, and brothers but saved the virgin little girls for themselves. They carried away 35,000 of those poor, crying, screaming, terrorized little girls then. If they took that many girls, can you imagin how many they killed in total? Also see the "Attack on the USS Liberty", which they attacked during the 1967 war (A sneak attack) and killed about 79 of our sailors and wounded another 139 or so. Also Jewish settlers have been killing Palestinians, taking over their land and running it for themselves. This has been going on for a long time. Some members of the Israeli military refused to serve in Palestine because of this, and took Court-Martials instead. There was also a Jewish group in the U.S. called "Not in my Name!, which did not approve with what their relatives in Israel were doing to the Palestinians. There is also another group in the U.S. titled "Jews Against Zionism". Get all the facts before you choose sides.

yea man love your statement....has the world forgotten that the jews put jesus christ to death...have the jews forgotten about other nations sufferings...the great irish famine is perhaps noteable for the 1 million people who where deliberatly starved to death by the british goverment of the day...how about hiroshima,,nagasaki...do we just forget about all those people who were massacared in those incidents,and give all our attention to the bleeding heart sonata rantings of the jew...ehh i dont think so......

the reason why Hiroshima was bombed because the Japanese invade out land yhe Philippines.they killed a lots of filipinos here .men and women and children too.they raped women.if these Japenese soldiers saw women anywhere they dont care they just take them and rape them even if many can see them.those Japanese soldiers before were demonic ,satanic and diabolic in nature.they are sexually starve,they kill without mercy too.My father is a civilian and forced to fight with these wicked generations of Japanese soldiers.the purpose of the coming of the Japanese in my country before was to conquer and imposed world domination.ther are many filipinos also that connive with the Japanese.so those people that are no longer here and died already im sure they all go to hell.Conniving with the enemies of the state and the people are condemned by God in the Bible.Same with the Jewish people who are doing the same.i no longer believe in the word 'Zionism".zion means the country of ISrael and the the Zionism that many are using now is not for all the Jews.it is only for those who have their hidden agenda.peple who tells they are Zionist or anythign associated with it does nt really care for all the Jews the choosen race of God

Japan was bombed because Truman was as ass, neither the Elected President FDR nor the head of the army in the region was for it. Calculations suggested would cost some 10million lives to invade Japan. What is sad is that ere is good evidence that they were already going to surrender, the Kwantung Army (the main army of Japan responsible for conquering most of China) stationed largely in Manchuria and Korea got their asses kicked by the Soviets. There are Russian AND American historians that argue this, as well as some Japanese.

If you read the Bible you will see that Jesus Christ (YESHUA) could have come down off the cross anytime he wanted to but his goal and mission being an obedient Son to GOD HIS FATHER (ABBA), to set the captives those lost in sin (things we do against GOD) basically to redeem each of us, which the CREATOR will not force anyone to believe. GOD created each of us with a freewill and HE will not go against that, For all have sinned (gone on their own path) ever since the fall of man, we want to rebel against GOD, but HE cannot go against HIS WORD!

You mean likely your allies in NATO Turkey that YOU sided against when IDF troops violated international law and attacked soveriegn civilian Turkish ships ininternational waters? The same guys who went to Korea to prove themselves to you? Or Egypt who you pay off? Or the monarchy of Hormuz that had a rebellion last year you pushed under the rug ebcause your 5th Fleet is based on their island? Or Iran whos Shah you appointed, oops sorry 70million people hated him so they had a revolution. What about those guys you trained in Afghanistan...oh you screwed them over and used them as canon fodder to fight the Soviets, whos 1980 Olympics you boycotted because of said invasion of Afghanistan. You need to study politics and history. Or maybe just ethics and morality.

you k now what happenned between the Israelites and the Palestinian now?it is already a revenge.a scrambled world for both of them.the one who suffered are the innocents and the children.this facts shows that without the guidance of God people are on their own.they no longer practice mercy and tolerance.a country without God will end in chaos and destructions,that is why God had destroyed a lots of Israelites in the Bible because they are a hard headed generations.after God saved from the hands of the Egyptian empire God help them how to go away from the cruel Pharaoh in Egypt.God led them cross the Red Sea and God did a miracles by using Moses as instrument so the sea will become a dry land and those egyptians soldiers that chased them were get drowned after Moses stop using his staff that God tell him to raised it towards the sea so the Israelites can passed through.,the water return to normal then the chasing egyptians died of drowning.These Israelites still have many of them were influenced by satan to do wickedness to fellow Israelites.That is why now you cannot traced wo among the are the true Israeites.The still dont believe in JEsus Christ as Messiah.In israel now there are many Israelites who become Christians and so these groups you can really say they are real.Paul Wilbur the singer and the preacher is one i know.He can be seen in YOUTUBE.He is a good Israelite.

Gerard, you want to know what is wild to think about? The Maccabees were simply the taliban of Israel.
Then think about how hannakuh is the celebration of "lights" but it's really a commemoratiOn of the Maccabees slaughter of the Syrian Hellenists. So in essence, while Christmas is a holiday of peace and love, Hanukkah is a celebration of war and conquer.
Tell me again why we can no longer say merry Christmas and instead have to placate zionists by saying happy holidays?! Meanwhile Judaism represents less than 0.5% of the worlds population. Makes you wonder who is calling the shots!

Modern day jews are not Israelites of old. Israelites of old were originally outcasts from numerous communities that banded together. But with groups like this, eventually they are co-opted by dubious people for self serving power and the main message is skewed and distorted over generations.. In fact, yahweh would be very displeased with the fact that there is an Israel today. Those Jews who worship the state over yahweh are in fact ATHEIST. Just like Jesus would be very displeased with the crusades, etc. True spirtual people who follow the ten commandments, buddah, whomever do not feel a need to put everyone on the same playing field because its their job to turn the other cheek.